Had you made the film you would’ve been faced with the same no-win situation as Feig, which is that IF you connect Answer the Call to the existing canon you risk the ire of weirdo fandom AND you have to figure out how to address the status of any currently living stars. People sometimes act like these things are made…

RIGHT?!

In hindsight as a skeptic I think it’s funny that Dean Yeager isn’t knocking parapsychology itself, just Venkman’s professionalism as a scientist and professor. Like... dude, parapsychology is bullshit pseudo-science. Let’s not pretend that Venkman was the only issue here.

They were not schlubby, blue-collar guys. They were academics and research scientists. Venkman might have treated it like a “dodge or hustle” as Dean Yeager put it but we’re not talking about public utility dudes. Aykroyd might have initially conceived of them that way but that is not what they became in the rewrites.

You should reconsider the use of that word.

“This will backfire spectacularly.”

I think a fair bit of it is respectability politics. Which I’m not always inherently against but it makes no sense at all given the GOP’s total disregard for respectability.

I get that, too, but I’m not going to be an asshole to people who are generally in agreement with me about the bigger picture.

Hey, friend? Aim that invective at the people who deserve it. You’re being kind of an antagonistic fuckwit.

Oh, I dunno. I’m not underplaying the danger but I also think a lot of 2A shit-stirrers are more bark than bite.

He earnestly hates that rabbit.

Who said anything about “roaming bands”? Jesus Christ, this is exactly what is being talked about vis-a-vis this stupid fucking topic. There is a world of difference between “I unfairly ate shit from a few women friends for an opinion on Answer the Call” and whatever the fuck you have interpreted me as saying, which…

Interesting. I didn’t number them. And given the screen name, I have a suspicion. Which, if true, means I’m not inclined to take static from you either given your personal connection. FWIW, in person yes. Online it was more than them. Either way you’re being dismissive of my lived experience, which even in the…

Oooh, I hates defenestration!

Oh, I don’t know. I really hated Spy despite a lovely cast. I liked The Heat but that was largely on the dynamic between her and Bullock. Feig had little to do with that. I don’t think Feig is any better than Falcone when it comes to bad McCarthy movies.

Although I felt differently about the Ramis ghost (I acknowledge it was emotionally manipulative but I also entirely fell for that manipulation), I was also quite disappointed in the *extremely* heavy-handed nostalgia bait of Afterlife.

But there is. Really.

He would improve that trailer for the Crow remake 1000%.

The original was hundreds of pages long, included a ton of parapsychology tech jargon and equipment instructions, and was generally a po-faced parapsychology comedy. Dan Aykroyd is a brilliant comic mind but also kind of a loon. People don’t know that the OG film was the result of Ramis and Reitman *struggling* to get…

In case it needs to be said, again: It literally did happen. To me. Personally. I got yelled at for being a sexist when I said I didn’t think Answer the Call was a good movie despite some good jokes. I got some of the same static for saying essentially the same thing about Bridesmaids. (There is maybe a longer…